Sickles played really good defense. You're not going to beat a team by only scoring 35 points. They did what they had to do to win and what a great year they've had. I'm not saying we didn't have a great year, but Coach Garcia has done an excellent job with his kids. |
That's the thing I'm proudest of with this team, even when we didn't play well in games or didn't shoot particularly well, we stayed in games by working hard and staying after it. We beat a very good, well-coached team tonight. |
They didn't seem to back away from hard work, but they didn't start working that hard together. However, they worked better together as each game progressed. They wanted to win and just kept getting better. |
They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished. |
They were beat up and pretty tired. They contributed that first night, but not like they have for the past month and a half. It took them a while to get used to a ball they could dribble. |
This award is a tribute to the players. They just never gave up. |
This game was a lot of fun. It was nice to meet the kids you coached against. You always were able to see them, but it was fun to meet them and I had a great group of kids. |
This team has as much heart as any team I've coached. I think this is a team with a lot of heart, guts and courage. When they're down by 27 points, they didn't give up. |
Those shots were big. That got us going. |
We don't need any heroes. Our guys just need to do what they do. |
We don't want him out there shooting 3-pointers unless it's a desperation last shot. He might make one. He's a good shooter, but that wasn't the time to do so. |
We just needed to get the ball to go in the basket maybe in the first and second quarter a little more. A couple of shots here or there. Then maybe if we can make a run, it could have been a little different. |
We lost. You lose by 30, you lose by one it hurts. We could have rolled over and it could have been 40, but I've been proud of these guys all year and they proved without a doubt they deserve to be here, I think. |
We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. We've been making them all year. The bottom line is when you get good looks against a good team, you have to knock them down. |
We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have been different. |